Steelcase furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: In an 8-K form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Steelcase has disclosed that they were the victim of a cyberattack on October 22nd, 2020. On October 22,...
View ArticleAU: Isentia hit by cyber attack
Justin Hendry reports: Media monitoring provider Isentia has suffered a “cyber security incident” that is affecting its flagship intelligence and insights service. The company said in a financial...
View ArticleMore than 100 irrigation systems left exposed online without a password
Catalin Cimpanu reports: More than 100 smart irrigation systems were left exposed online without a password last month, allowing anyone to access and tamper with water irrigation programs for crops,...
View ArticleSecurity Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo
Brian Krebs has additional information on the Gunnebo attack mentioned yesterday in discussing the leak of security-related files concerning the Swedish parliament: In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity...
View ArticleTrue, the social networking app that promises to ‘protect your privacy,’...
Zack Whittaker reports: True bills itself as the social networking app that will “protect your privacy.” But a security lapse left one of its servers exposed — and spilling private user data to the...
View ArticleTaiwan’s UMC pleads guilty, fined $60 mln in trade secret theft case
Reuters reports: Taiwan’s UMC has pleaded guilty to trade secret theft in the United States and will pay a $60 million fine in a case where it was accused of helping a Chinese state-owned chipmaker...
View ArticleICO fines Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep...
From the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): The ICO has fined Marriott International Inc £18.4million for failing to keep millions of customers’ personal data secure. Marriott estimates...
View ArticleHome Depot Confirms Data Breach in Order Confirmation SNAFU
Tara Seals reports: Home Depot has exposed the private order confirmations of hundreds of Canadian consumers, containing names, physical addresses, email addresses, order details and partial...
View ArticlePersonal data of 1.1 million RedMart user accounts stolen in Lazada breach...
Lester Wong reports: The personal information of 1.1 million RedMart user accounts was stolen from a customer database and put up for sale on an online forum. A spokesman from e-commerce giant Lazada,...
View ArticleREvil ransomware threat actors reveal their gaming company victim
In a recent interview with Yelisey Boguslavskiy, “UNKN” of the threat actors known as REvil (Sodinokibi) indicated that they were planning a major attack on a gaming network. Today, the threat actors...
View ArticleEatigo reports data breach, personal data from customer accounts listed for...
CNA reports: Personal data from potentially 2.8 million eatigo accounts were illegally assessed in a data breach. In an email to customers on Saturday (Oct 31), the restaurant reservation platform said...
View ArticleKR: Court orders online mall to compensate 2,400 customers for data leak
Depending on how long you have been following this blog, some of you may not remember the Interpark data breach in South Korea in 2016. I had covered it several times, including when it was fined $3.8...
View ArticleNetWalker hits CMC in Ravenna
Andrea Alberizia reports that CMC in Ravenna has been compromised by NetWalker ransomware. A team of 20 engineers from Itway has been working around the clock for four days to get the coop network...
View ArticleCustomer payment details stolen in JM Bullion hack
Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Hackers scraped the personal information and payment details of customers who made purchases with the precious metals dealer JM Bullion in a cyber attack which lasted six...
View ArticleCampari Group victim of a malware attack
A Google translation of a report on Trend-Online: Campari Group informs that, presumably on 1 November 2020, it was the subject of a malware attack (computer virus), which was promptly identified. The...
View ArticleSaarbrücken Airport reports cyberattack
The following is a Google translation: There was a cyber attack on Saarbrücken Airport and the state-owned structural holding company Saar GmbH on Tuesday morning. Flight operations are not affected....
View ArticleFolksam data breach leaks info of 1M Swedes to Google, Facebook, more
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Folksam, one of the largest insurance companies in Sweden, today disclosed a data breach affecting around 1 million Swedes after sharing customers’ personal info with multiple...
View ArticleConfiguration snafu exposes passwords for two million marijuana growers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: GrowDiaries, an online community where marijuana growers can blog about their plants and interact with other farmers, has suffered a security breach in September this year. The...
View ArticleId: Fintech Cermati data breach points to urgency for data protection law:...
Eisya A. Eloksari reports: A recent data breach case involving fintech aggregator platform Cermati.com, the fifth known this year, again highlights the vulnerability of user data on digital platforms...
View ArticleAnother Indian pharmaceutical giant reports cybersecurity breach within two...
Prabhjote Gill reports: Another leading Indian pharmaceutical, Lupin, has reported a cybersecurity attack on its IT systems within two weeks of a ransomware attack on Dr Reddy’s Laboratories. “We have...
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